Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should all be Feminists

We should all be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Introduction 

   We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much [...] to be successful, but not too successful, or they'll threaten men, says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In this ted talk that started a worldwide conversation about feminism, Adichie asks that we begin to dream about and plan for a different, fairer world -- of happier men and women who are truer.

  Although Adichie belongs to another period, she also includes feminists thoughts in her speech like Madonna, Blessing, and Angelou did it in her works. Chimamanda talks about her personal experience in this ordinary world and puts a great emphasis on how society looks at her. In addition to this, Adichie makes a reflection about gender equality, one of the most important and controversial themes related to the feminism movement, among others.

  
A further reading

 Men and women differ in several ways, but there is no evidence that biological differences between sexes make one gender more talented or intelligent than another. It is society, not nature, that tells us girls are inferior to men.  Men are considered physically stronger, so in a literal way, men rule the world. This belief made sense a thousand years ago because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival.

Gender matters everywhere in the world, but Chimamanda wants to talk about  Nigeria and Africa. In her speech, she sustains the following ideas “ We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently. We do a great disservice to boys on how we raise them; we stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way, masculinity becomes this hard, small cage and we put boys inside the cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear. We teach boys to be afraid of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves because they have to be, in Nigerian speak, "hard man!" In secondary school, a boy and a girl, both of them teenagers, both of them with the same amount of pocket money, would go out and then the boy would be expected always to pay, to prove his masculinity [...]”  In brief, Chimamanda wants to highlight the fact that It is our conceptions about the role of the men and women which need to be changed. The society needs to redefine both roles in an equal way where there are no differences.  In fact, she does not point out to the men community in order to make them responsible for women's inequality.

Key Concepts
1. Masculinity
2. Vulnerability
3. Feminism
4. Gender equality
5. Respect
6. Supporter
7. Baggage
8. Hormones
9. Sexual organs 
10.Physical Strength 
11. Gender Matters
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